Ok, I am not even in college yet, in fact I am in high school, but I am worried about some things... I like software design and programming, becuase I am good at it.
I want to find a job that I will like...Things I am willing to do are...
- Software Design -
- Anything with PCs -
- Bank stuff -
- Business Management -
I am talking about life jobs, not part time stuff to do while in college. That I most likely will get myself.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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 Apr 4 2006, 12:00 pm
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Don't get into game development! Everyone and their uncle are getting those little weekend degrees in game design. Before you know it there will be too many competitors and not enough jobs.
What you should do is get into teaching. Right now the pay sucks and anyone would think you're crazy for wanting the job. Here's the thing though, in 10 or so years there will be a shortage of teachers. That means you'll be making a killing when their salary skyrockets. Of course you can combine the two scenarios and teach at one of those expensive tech schools. =) | |
The fastest growing field is care for the elderly, actually. If you just want an assured job and good pay, that's a good way to get it. The population is getting older and living longer. To support the aging, caretakers, nurses, and assistants are needed.
If you want a quick (dishonest) buck, be a trial lawyer. They win huge sums of money for their clients and take up to a third of those sums. They don't even have to know how to tell the truth or how to be logical - only how to pander to a judge panel or a jury. </humor> If you want to be punched by a US congresswoman, be a police officer in Washington, DC. </humor></current events> --Vito | |
I dunno. Maybe right now, but medical advances will mean that in 5 to 10 years time all people over the age of 50 will be giant cyborgs anyhow. Their brains will be servers and they will run the internet. Think War of the Worlds.
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Elation wrote:
"Maybe right now, but medical advances will mean that in 5 to 10 years time all people over the age of 50 will be giant cyborgs anyhow. Their brains will be servers and they will run the internet. Think War of the Worlds." That scares me beyond belief. My moms works as a healthcare aid. She makes pretty good money doing it, too. | |
(4 Year) Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
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Your "mom" (Mechanised Operation Moderator, think army general, but with nanobot implants) will lead the assault on Humanity. She will, with thousands of other "healthcare aids" will bring destruction and suffering down on man-kind.
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If your going to go into programming, go into e-commerce. It's very hard to find a job dealing with batch processing or local user-input type deals. Take it from someone who knows.
The internship I FINALLY found is dealing with more internet programming. Logins, database queries, and web design as such. So, even if you go for a pure programming degree, it would be useful to toss some CGI/Pearl, PHP, and maybe another web-based language in there. | |
The one I found most useful was coin3.
(Not sure if I should be giving the link out to my high school's account, even though it's free to students and they display the link on their website, but I hope it helps you!)